In a novella by this author, Stumpy McPherson and the Rainey twins witness the protagonist fight a barroom brawl against her gas station robbing ex-husband Marvin Macy. One of this author's characters attempts, but fails, to compose a song called "This Thing I Want, I Know Not What," and fashions a violin out of a cracked ukelele. This author wrote a novella set in an unnamed mill town, where Miss Amelia Evans falls in love with the hunchbacked dwarf Cousin Lymon Willis 
In a novella by this author, Stumpy McPherson and the Rainey twins witness the protagonist fight a barroom brawl against her gas station robbing ex-husband Marvin Macy. One of this author's characters attempts, but fails, to compose a song called "This Thing I Want, I Know Not What," and fashions a violin out of a cracked ukelele. This author wrote a novella set in an unnamed mill town, where Miss Amelia Evans falls in love with the hunchbacked dwarf Cousin Lymon Willis and reopens the title institution. In a novel by this author, Dr. Coleman, Jake Blount, and Biff Brannon confide in a deaf-mute who commits suicide after learning of the death of Spiros Antonapoulos, John Singer. For 10 points, name this American author of The Ballad of the Sad Café and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
In a novella by this author, Stumpy McPherson and the Rainey twins witness the protagonist fight a barroom brawl against her gas station robbing ex-husband Marvin Macy.
Carson {McCullers}